Continue reading »]]> This past weekend the Nebula Awards Ceremony was held in Arlington, VA. Our lovely and talented associate editor Damien Walters Grintalis was there, so perhaps she can provide more details on the event itself. We sent 50 copies of issue #19 and 50 copies of #20, so hopefully attendees got a chance to see what makes us rock (and everyone who wanted a copy, got a copy!).

Looking over the incredible list of nominees, we see all sorts of people (well, at least one author in each category) that have been in the pages of Electric Velocipede. We’re very proud of these writers, and want to congratulate them and all the nominees and winners from this past weekend!

Novel

Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor) – WINNER
Embassytown, China Miéville (Macmillan (UK); Del Rey; Subterranean Press)
Firebird, Jack McDevitt (Ace Books)
God’s War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade Books)
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime Books) [Electric Velocipede 21/22]
The Kingdom of Gods, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Novella

“The Man Who Bridged the Mist,” Kij Johnson (Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2011) – WINNER
“Kiss Me Twice,” Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2011)
“Silently and Very Fast,” Catherynne M. Valente (WFSA Press; Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2011) [Electric Velocipede 11]
“The Ice Owl,” Carolyn Ives Gilman (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2011)
“The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary,” Ken Liu (Panverse Three, Panverse Publishing) [Electric Velocipede 24 - forthcoming]
“With Unclean Hands,” Adam-Troy Castro (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2011)

Novelette

“What We Found,” Geoff Ryman (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October 2011) – WINNER
“Fields of Gold,” Rachel Swirsky (Eclipse 4, Night Shade Books) [Electric Velocipede 13, 15/16]
“Ray of Light,” Brad R. Torgersen (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2011)
“Sauerkraut Station,” Ferrett Steinmetz (Giganotosaurus, November 2011)
“Six Months, Three Days,” Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com, June 2011)
“The Migratory Pattern of Dancers,” Katherine Sparrow (Giganotosaurus, July 2011)
“The Old Equations,” Jake Kerr (Lightspeed Magazine, July 2011)

Short Story

“The Paper Menagerie,” Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2011) – WINNER [Electric Velocipede 24; forthcoming]
“Her Husband’s Hands,” Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed Magazine, October 2011)
“Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son,” Tom Crosshill (Lightspeed Magazine, April 2011)
“Movement,” Nancy Fulda (Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2011)
“Shipbirth,” Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2011) [Electric Velocipede 15/16, 24 -  forthcoming]
“The Axiom of Choice,” David W. Goldman (New Haven Review, Winter 2011)
“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees,” E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2011) [Electric Velocipede 21/22]

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We are gearing up for the release of Issue 24 and, as always, we have some amazing work in store for you. Look for the first story to be released on Monday, June 25th with the rest of the issue to appear in the following weeks. We will also have the whole issue ready as an electronic version for purchase at the same time. And speaking of electronic, we currently have electronic versions of EV 15/16, 17/18, 19, 20, 21/22, and 23 available via Weightless Books.

Don’t forget, you can also order Electric Velocipede #23 for the Nook or for the Kindle!

Here is the full table of contents for Issue 24:

Nonfiction:
“Content TKTK” by John Ottinger
“Blindfold Taste Test” with William Shunn

Cover art by Thom Davidsohn

Continue reading »]]> For those of you who don’t follow us on Twitter, or aren’t yet fans of our Facebook page, Electric Velocipede is available for the Nook and the Kindle. In the next couple days we’ll get more content available on Small Beer Press’ Weightless Books (you can already get Electric Velocipede 21/22 there).

This wouldn’t have happened without the help of Neil Clarke. Neil (nominated for a Best Editor Short Form Hugo this year)—himself quite successful with e-sales—converted the issue to the proper formats so that we could put it up for sale.

About time Electric Velocipede was available electronically, right?

Continue reading »]]> Bet you thought we forgot, didn’t you? It took some time to hear back from everyone, but here are our winners and their prizes:

Ann Leckie: Electric Velocipede t-shirt

Michelle Muenzler: Electric Velocipede #1

LaShawn Wanak: Happily Ever After

Neil Williamson: Happily Ever After

The fifth winner was someone who donated and opted to forgo a prize. We were a little short on our goal, but that’s ok. We all had fun, right?

In fact, it was so much fun, that we might try to run something bigger this summer. We’d love to be able to offer more money to our authors or maybe do some special print editions of the issue. What do you think?

Congratulations to all our winners!

Continue reading »]]> When it was too late to do anything about it, we realized we didn’t have a working impartial system to select winners. It’s going to take a little bit to get that sorted out, so rather than rush through things, we’ll leave things running until Friday April 6.

For those who’ve missed our other announcements, the plan is to raise money to send John to conventions to spread the word that is Electric Velocipede. As we’ve done in the past, we don’t want to just ask for money, we want you guys to get something out of it, too (although we’ll take donations if you’ve got them). So our thought was that everyone who makes a donation or a purchase in the store will be entered in a drawing to win prizes like back issues (including some not in the store, like the purple cover issue #9, or issue #1), t-shirts, copies of John’s limited edition chapbook (see image above), copies of Happily Ever After, or something from John’s backlog of ARCs.

We know that it seems like everyone is asking for money and donations right now. There’s been two excellent Kickstarter campaigns recently (the Locus Photo and Ephemera Archive Project and Jess Nevins’ The Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes) and there are tons of other things that deserve funding and your dollars. If we don’t fit into our budget, that’s how it works sometimes. But if you could spread the word so that we can reach as many people as possible, that would be wonderful.

(and yes, John pledged support to Locus when he should be saving money for convention travels! they pulled right on his librarian heartstrings! don’t worry, we’ve talked to him about it)

So, if you can, make a donation or head to the store and be a part of the contest! If you can’t do that, tell a friend!

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We’ve talked about wanting to send John away, and people have heeded our call. We gave the list of ARCs, to show some of the cool stuff you can win (in addition to t-shirts and back issues). It would be awesome if we could get a few more people taking part of the contest. What do you say? Wanna win some cool and help us send John to a few conventions?

Continue reading »]]> First, this is not an April Fool’s Day joke, this is a real thing. We mentioned the ARCs that were potential prizes, well here’s the list! There’s a lot of great stuff here.

Abercrombie, Joe – The Blade Itself

Abraham, Daniel – Leviathan Wept and Other Stories

Armstrong, Kelley – Counterfeit Magic

Armstrong, Kelley – Hidden

Bacigalupi, Paolo – The Alchemist

Baker, Kage – The Best of Kage Baker

Barlow, Toby – Sharp Teeth

Beagle, Peter S. – Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle

Beagle, Peter S. – Return An Innkeeper’s World Story

Bear, Elizabeth – The White City

Bennett, Robert Jackson – Mr. Shivers

Bishop, Michael – The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy

Blaylock, James P. – The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs

Bloch, Robert – Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper

Boyett, Steven R. – Mortality Bridge

Bradbury, Ray – A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

Bradbury, Ray – Nemo!

Bradbury, Ray – The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition (over-sized)

Brett, Peter V. – Brayan’s Gold

Brett, Peter V. – The Great Bazaar and Other Stories

Briggs, Patricia – Alpha and Omega

Brooks, Terry – Indomitable

Buckell, Tobias S. – The Executioness

Cannon, Peter – Forever Azathoth Pastiches and Parodies

Card, Orson Scott – Hamlet’s Father

Crowley, John – Four Freedoms

Dahlquist, Gordon – The Dark Volume (Bantam edition)

Dahlquist, Gordon – The Dark Volume (Subterranean Press edition)

de la Cruz, Melissa – Witches of East End

Dick, Philip K. – Adjustment Team (1952-1953) Collected Stories vol. Two

Dick, Philip K. – The King of the Elves (1947-1952) Collected Stories vol. One

Donaldson, Stephen R. – The Best of Stephen R. Donaldson

Ellison, Harlan – Deathbird Stories (over-sized)

Ford, Jeffrey – The Shadow Year

Frei, Max – The Stranger

Gevers, Nick – The Book of Dreams

Gregory, Daryl – Pandemonium

Grimwood, Jon Courtney – Stamping Butterflies

Hamilton, Peter F. – The Naked God

Hirshberg, Glen – The Janus Tree and Other Stories

Howard, Jonathan L. – Johannes Cabal the Necromancer

Joyce, Graham – The Facts of Life

Kessel, John – The Baum Plan of Independence

Kiernan, Caitlin R. – The Ammonite Violin & Others

Kiernan, Caitlin R. – Two Worlds and in Between (Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan vol. one)

Kittredge, Caitlin – The Curse of Four

Klima, John – Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories (three copies)

Klosterman, Chuck – Downtown Owl

Lansdale, Joe R. – Deadman’s Road

Lansdale, Joe R. – Hyenas

Larsen, Rief – The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

Leiber, Fritz – Strange Wonders: A Collection of Rare Fritz Leiber Works (ed. Benjamin Szumskyj)

Ligotti, Thomas – Grimscribe

Ligotti, Thomas – Songs of a Dead Dreamer

Lindqvist, John Ajvide – Handling the Undead

Lumley, Brian – Necroscope: The Plague-Bearer

Lumley, Brian – The Fly By Nights

Lynch, Scott – The Lies of Locke Lamora

Maberry, Jonathan – Patient Zero

MacLeod, Ian R. – Journeys

Marshall, Michael – Bad Things

McCammon, Robert – BAAL

McCammon, Robert – Mister Slaughter

McCammon, Robert – The Five

Mieville, China – Embassytown

Mieville, China – The City & The City (read, slightly used)

Mieville, China – Un Lun Dun

Mitchell, Daniel – Cloud Atlas

Morgan, Richard K. – Woken Furies

Novik, Naomi – Empire of Ivory (Temeraire Book Four)

Parker, K. J. – Blue and Gold

Partridge, Norman – Lesser Demons

Perez-Reverte, Arturo – The Club Dumas

Pratt, T. A. – Dead Reign (mass market)

Reynolds, Alastair – Troika

Schafer, William – Subterranean:  Tales of Dark Fantasy 2

Shiner, Lewis – Dark Tangos

Silverberg, Robert – Multiples Collected Stories Vol. Six

Silverberg, Robert – The Last Song of Orpheus

Silverberg, Robert – The Palace at Midnight Collected Stories Vol. Five

Silverberg, Robert – Times Three

Simmons, Dan – Phases of Gravity

Stahl, Jerry – Pain Killers

Steele, Allen – Angel of Europa

Stephenson, Neal – Cryptonomicon

Straub, Peter – The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine

Straub, Peter – The Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories

Stross, Charles – Palimpsest

Vance, Jack – Dangerous Ways

Wheaton, Wil – The Happiest Days of Our Lives

Willingham, Bill – Peter & Max

Willis, Connie – All About Emily

Zafon, Carloes Ruiz – The Angel’s Game

Continue reading »]]> This might be our final reminder about our semi-devious plans to get some revenue to send John to some conventions. John’s got plans to take part in CONvergence and Windycon this year, but we think it would be great if he could also go to Wiscon, Chicon 7 (Worldcon), and World Fantasy. Big aspirations, true, but we think they’re worthwhile.

Asking for money outright makes us a little uncomfortable (we’ll take donations if you’re inclined; there’s a donation button at the top right of the page), so we’d like to make it worth your while, too. As we’ve mentioned before, we’re running a contest where every purchase or donation made through April 1 will be entered into a drawing to win some fabulous prizes.

The prizes include copies of Happily Ever After (John’s reprint anthology of fairy tale retellings); t-shirts; Electric Velocipede back issues; grab bags of ARCs (lots of cool stuff from Subterranean Press and other publishers); John’s editorial services; and whatever else our devious minds can think of. You can also donate convention memberships directly if you’re so inclined.

We’ll be drawing winners on Monday, April 2. Obviously, if you bought a shirt, you won’t win a shirt (unless you want a second one), if you bought back issues, you won’t win back issues (again, unless that’s what you want), etc.

What’s behind all this? We feel that in 2011 we didn’t get ourselves out in front of people. If we’re not out there talking about Electric Velocipede, who is? Getting to conventions was really tough for John in 2011 between starting a new job and moving. This year is better, but we still need a little financial boost to get things moving.

If we can get out to conventions and other places (and John in particular as he’s our biggest proponent), we can talk to people about Electric Velocipede and that’s a good thing.

If you’ve got questions, just ask!

Continue reading »]]> Last week we talked about our semi-devious plans to get some revenue to send John to some conventions. John’s got plans to take part in CONvergence and Windycon this year, but we think it would be great if he could also go to Wiscon, Chicon 7 (Worldcon), and World Fantasy.

But we don’t like to just outright ask for money (we’ll take donations if you’re inclined; there’s a donation button at the top right of the page), we like to make it worth your while, too. So we’re running a contest where every purchase or donation made from now to the end of the month will be entered into a drawing to win some fabulous prizes. If you’ve forgotten (or missed the announcement last week), prizes include copies of Happily Ever After (John’s reprint anthology of fairy tale retellings); t-shirts; Electric Velocipede back issues; grab bags of ARCs [we know we promised a list, and that's still forthcoming]; John’s editorial services; and whatever else our devious minds can think of. You can also donate convention memberships directly if you’re so inclined.

Since we don’t have the heart to draw winners on April Fool’s Day, we’ll be drawing winners on Monday, April 2. Obviously, if you bought a shirt, you won’t win a shirt (unless you want a second one), if you bought back issues, you won’t win back issues (again, unless that’s what you want), etc.

What’s behind all this? We feel that in 2011 we didn’t get ourselves out in front of people. John knows this was particularly true since he started a new job and moved his family, so getting to conventions was really tough. If we can get out to conventions and other places, we can talk to people about Electric Velocipede and that’s a good thing.

If you’ve got questions, just ask!

Continue reading »]]> We have a semi-devious plan to send John to a few conventions this year (only ‘semi’ since he can see what we’re doing). Which conventions? We’re looking at Wiscon, Chicon 7 (Worldcon), and World Fantasy to name a few.

But why not make it so that you can have some fun, too? So, to that end, for every purchase or donation made from now to the end of the month will be entered into a drawing to win some fabulous prizes. What kind of prizes? Copies of John’s reprint anthology of fairy tale retellings, Happily Ever After; t-shirts; Electric Velocipede back issues; grab bags of ARCs [a list is forthcoming]; John’s editorial services; and whatever else our devious minds can think of. You can also donate convention memberships directly if you’re so inclined.

We will draw five winners on April 2, 2012 (we don’t have the heart to do the drawing on April 1) and announce who won which prizes. Obviously, if you bought a shirt, you won’t win a shirt (unless you want a second one), if you bought back issues, you won’t win back issues (again, unless that’s what you want), etc.

Hey wait! you say. What if I want to be a part of the drawing but I can’t afford to buy something!! We’ll run a second drawing in April where no purchase is necessary. Watch this space for details!